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Firefox 2 support to be cut off
The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. Read more »
Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones
Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season
In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year's holiday buying season. Read more »
New Firefox privacy mode released to testers
Late Monday a small, yet big Firefox feature, private browsing, was released to testers of Firefox nightly builds. Read more »
Third Chrome beta another notch faster
Google began updating Chrome users with the new beta version, and performance tests show the company has ratcheted the browser's speed up another notch Read more »
Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism
Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions. Read more »
Google launches limited API support for OpenID
On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering some site owners a way to let users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account information. Read more »
OpenOffice 3.0 demand crashes servers
Servers hosting the new version of OpenOffice.org have crashed, under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite. Read more »
World Bank gets hacked
The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report. Read more »
Adobe confirms Flash for iPhone
Adobe has reportedly confirmed that its Flash technology is coming to Apple's iPhone. Read more »
Features (56)
How to achieve real diversity in IT
While just hiring people who look different may satisfy internal mandates or passing fads, the truly beneficial form of diversity comes from a diversity of ideas and experience. Read more »
UML needs fixing claims founder
One of the creators of the Unified Modeling Language, Ivar Jacobson, claims the technology has become too big and needs to be simplified. Read more »
Brazil's love of Linux
Walk into the Ponto Frio electronics store at Sao Paulo, Brazil, which proudly displays a penguin-shaped logo, and you will find a healthy supply of Linux PCs alongside the usual Windows machines. Read more »
An outage: Lessons learned
This article talks about two outages that occurred at a college and lessons learned from them. Read more »
Practical tips for setting up a UPS
Today I'm going to share some pointers I learned from my previous experiences in buying and setting up a UPS for a mid-size server room. Read more »
Vista is sunk
It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really. But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull. Read more »
Red ring of death is closer than you think
It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »
Switching Oracle Portal to a new database is easier than Oracle Tech Support says
If you do not have to support an Oracle Portal, consider yourself lucky. We recently ran into a problem that forced us to quickly move to a new metadata database. Read more »
Sun's Java certifications: Are they worth the effort?
Can Java certifications be beneficial for your career? Here's a quick overview of Sun's Java certification offerings, along with my thoughts about how much stock I put into these certifications. Read more »
Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge
With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »
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Sun's JavaFX RIA platform MIA?
-- Adobe and Microsoft have taken the early lead in the RIA market but Sun is still waiting to get out of the starting blocks with JavaFX. Is Sun too late to the party? Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?
-- Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Read more »
Is Streem just Scopical take two?
-- When I wrote about Sydney-based social news start-up Streem earlier this week, the group was less than forthcoming about the real history behind its operations. Read more »
How to manage a team of geniuses
-- Hiring a team of developers and techies that are smarter than you is inevitable. As a manager how do you cope with this and keep things on track? Read more »
You shall be replaced by a small shell script
-- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. Read more »
Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group
-- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »
FileMaker upgrades to version 9
-- We haven't heard a lot from the folks at FileMaker recently, but they've got a new version of their database software for PCs and Macs out in stores. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
2008/11/21 10:32:55
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.